Caganich v. Industrial Commission

LOCKWOOD, Justice:

This matter is before us on a petition for review of a decision of the Court of Appeals setting aside the award of the Industrial Commission. Opinion of the Court of Appeals, 15 Ariz.App. 594, 490 P.2d 39 (1971), vacated.

On July 30, 1968, petitioner, who was working as a meat cutter, attempted to lift a round of meat off a hook when he felt his arm go limp. He was later unable to move his arm. The doctor who attended him diagnosed his condition as epicondylitis, “inflammation of the tendons that attach to this boney prominence that [is] referred to as the medial epicondyle.”

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